The Life and Opinions Of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Sterne, Laurence The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.. Sterne, Laurence London: J. & R. Dodsley, 1760. First edition, 9 volumes, small 8vo, 1 copper engraved plate after Hogarth; 2 pages printed in black in volume 1, pp. 169-70 in volume 3 are marbled, L2r in volume 6 is blank, all as issued; volume V lacks the blank leaf A1 (as in the Rothschild copy); half-title pages in vols.

4, 5, 6, and 9, as called for by Rothschild; volume 7 is in the first state with errata on verso of the title page, with Chapter XXIII misnumbered XXIV, and the word "Gentleman" on the title page in upper and lower case; the dedication in volume 9 is in setting 'b' (as in the Rothschild copy - and apparently no priority); signed by Sterne, as usual in volumes 5 and 7 (but not 9); later full speckled calf by Bedford, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, morocco labels and lettering pieces in 2; all volumes rebacked with old spines laid down (some will loss). Leather boookplates in each volume of John Pierpont Morgan. Rothschild 1970. THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN STERNE, LAURENCE 1760. STERNE, Laurence. THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN. London, R. and J.

Dodsley, 1760-61 (Volumes I-IV). London: T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1762-67 (Volumes V-IX). Nine octavo volumes. Volumes IV-IX first editions; I and II are second editions; Volumes V, VII and IX bear STERNE'S AUTOGRAPH on the first text page. Volume I has a frontispiece after William Hogarth; III has the marbled plate as required. Half-titles in volume 4,6,9. Volume 7 errata on verso of the title page with Chapters correctly numbered. Bound in early full calf, nicely rebacked with period numbering. Internally clean. Engraved circular armorial bookplate on volume one. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman [WITH] the Sermons of Mr. Yorick [In 3 Volumes] Sterne, Laurence Dublin: Thomas Armitage. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1779. Hardcover. All 3 volumes remain very attractive for their age showing only light wear at extremities.

Internally, there is a moderate amount of spotting and other foxing. Otherwise texts are clean, complete, and tightly bound. ; Title pages and corresponding frontis pages from Armitage's 1779 "The Works of Laurence Sterne AM in Eight Volumes" though the text is not believed to be from this edition. OCLC and the English Short Title Catalog both list 3 volume editions of Tristram Shandy published in 1779 also by Armitage which this is believed to be. Bound in 3 volumes with 3 small "books" per volume. Volume 1 consists of the first 3 parts of Tristrim Shandy with consistent page numbering throughout. Book 1 ends on page 93. Book 2 ends on page 189; and the volume and book 3 conclude on page 286. Volume 2 is similar with book 4 concluding on page 112. Book 5 concludes on page 192; and book 6 and the volume conclude on page 237.

Volume 3 includes the final three parts of Tristram Shandy with book 7 ending on page 73, book 8 ending on page 141 and book 9 concluding on page 204. Also bound with volume 3 is an unknown edition of (though presumed part of Armitage's 1779 Works of Sterne) "The Sermons of Mr. Yorick" which includes a preface and 14 sermons in 2 "books"Probably bound in the late 1800s, all 3 volumes are bound to match in full maroon leather with raised bands and gilt spine title and decoration. Leather turn-ins exposed and gilted with heavy marbled paper pastedowns and ffeps. Bound by Frank Lawrence Embree printed in gilt on the bottom front turn in near hinge. A thorough search yielded no records of Mr. Embree as a binder, but a Frank Lawrence Embree who lived in Brooklyn, NY at the turn of the 19th century may be the man. A collection of wax cylinder recordings of his voice may be found at the UC Santa Barbara library online by visiting: http: //preview.

Tinyurl.com/jdcat8a; 24mo 5" - 6" tall . Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket $400.00 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman [with:] A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. [Two Volumes]. Sterne, Laurence. London: Macmillan and Co Library of English Classics Edition, 1900. Two volumes. Octavo, bound by Birdsall for Charles Scribner’s Sons in 3/4 brown levant & tan linen, gilt-decorated spines, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, title pages in red and black, viii, 368 pp + 378 pp. In addition to the two classics mentioned on the title pages, the set also includes: A Political Romance, A Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais, and Memoirs of the Life and Family of the Late Rev. Mr. Laurence Sterne. The set is in Fine condition.

A Treatise on a Malignant Epidemic, commonly called Spotted Fever; interspersed with remarks on the nature of fever in general, &c., and an appendix, in which is republished a number of essays written by different authors on this epidemic, with the addition of original notes: containing also a few original and selected cases, with clinical remarks. North, Elisha New York: T & J Swords, 1811. Very good in modern red cloth binding with gilt title to spine. Octavo, 250pp with advertisement for T & J Swords in rear. Deckled edges. Light foxing throughout, small hole through last thirty pages. Elisha North (1771-1843) was among the earliest physicians to practice vaccination in the US, and also founded the first eye infirmary in the US. THE LIFE & OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY GENTLEMAN... STERNE, Laurence New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. hardcover. About Fine in a Fine slipcase. T. M. Cleland.

Two octavo (5-3/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in half blue linen and blue marbled paper sides. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Illustrated with line drawings by T. M. Cleland who also designed the book. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered (in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy") and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 15 presentation copies. The slipcase was specially made for the publisher and is very similar to the original but slightly larger and without the printed label on the spine. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman - A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy Sterne, Laurence: In two volumes. Library of English Classics. viii, 368 pp + 1 pp ads; 378 pp + 2 pp ads. A little foxing on eps of both volumes. Edges untrimmed. Hinges cracked in volume I only. Previous owner's inscription on ffep of volume I only. Bound in matching red cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spines.

Blindstamp decorative panel at top and bottom of front boards. Top of spines of both volumes rubbed away. Bottom of spines rubbed. Spines somewhat faded. Corners rubbed. Top edges of boards darkened. Overall condition VG-. Life Opinions Tristram Shandy Gentleman, First Edition - AbeBooks Life Opinions Tristram Shandy Gentleman, First Edition You Searched For: Results (31 - 47) of 47 ‹ Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: HARRAP, 1926. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. First edition. Sent from the UK within 24 hours. EXPEDITED UK DELIVERY AVAILABLE. Edition: First Edition. Published by HARRAP in 1926, 582 pages, 1st edition, hardback (no Dust Jacket), tall size, no D/W as issued, covers good, internally good, boards good, gilt titled spine, brown cloth, , illustrated frontispiece, colour plates, a good reading copy.

Bookseller Inventory # BBI1352599 Published by Alfred Thomas Crocker, London (1867) Used Hardcover First Edition Published by Goldern Cockerel Press, UK (1929) Used Original Cloth First Edition Quantity Available: 1 Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York (1935) Used Hardcovers First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1935. Hardcovers. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Slipcase. T.M. Cleland (illustrator). First LeC Edition. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST and published in a LIMITED EDITION of #1500 copies of which this is #412 in a very good, paper-covered slipcase with a clean, while but slightly toned title label and a archival glue repair to a lengthwise split at the top corner of the slipcase. Both volumes appear to be unread and are clean and unmarked. Size: Octavos.

Bookseller Inventory # 1355168 Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, England (1926) Used Hardcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Basil Blackwell, Oxford, England, 1926. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Printed by The Shakespeare Head Press for Basil Blackwell in a limited edition of 530 copies. Red cloth covered boards with light sunning to spines, gold titling. Light age toniing to endpapers, gilded at the head of the text block, deckled edge. Clean within. Bookseller Inventory # 23286 Published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford, England (1926) Used Hardcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Basil Blackwell, Oxford, England, 1926. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Shakespeare Head Press Edition, published for them by Blackwell. Red cloth covered boards, gold titling to spine. Spine has faded slightly from sunning. Minor age toning to endpapers of each volume, clean within. A very nice set.

530 copies printed, of which 500 were for sale. Bookseller Inventory # 23293 Published by Limited Editions, New York (1935) Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Limited Editions, New York, 1935. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. Limited Edition. #652/1500 copies published for members of the Limited Editions Club at the Press of A. Colish in New York, and SIGNED by the Illustrator on the colophon. Two Volumes, complete, in slipcase. Fine. Points of slipcase minutely rubbed, lacking the superfluous glassine. 790pp. Q08603. Bookseller Inventory # Q08603 Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London (1926) Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., London, 1926. Cloth. Book Condition: Good+. Wheelwright, Rowland (illustrator).

Limited Ediiton. Limited Edition #636 of 1,000 English issues, signed by the illustrator, heavy discolouration/mottling front cover, light foxing, unmarked, colour illustrations, 582pp, G+/--. Signed By Artist. Bookseller Inventory # 300323 Published by Odyssey Press (1940) Used First Edition Sterne, Laurencel; with The Illustrations Of John Austen Published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania (1980) Used Hardcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1980. Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine, Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. Pristine. A Limited Edition.; A Limited Edition. The 100 Greatest Books of All Time.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Bookseller Inventory # 55355 Published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center Pennsylvania (1983) Used Hardcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Franklin Library, Franklin Center Pennsylvania, 1983. Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine, Accented in 22kt gold, printed on archival paper with gilded edges, smyth sewing & concealed muslin joints. Bound In full leather with hubbed spines. Pristine. A Limited Edition.; Franklin Library the Great Books of the Western World Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bookseller Inventory # 62351 More Information About This Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question 41. Bookseller Image Sterne, Laurence [bookplate of Dorothy Gish] Published by Macmillan and Co, London (1911) Used Hardcover First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Macmillan and Co, London, 1911. Half Dark Blue Calf. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Macmillan Library of English Classics Ed. 368, 378.

Half dark blue calf with maroon calf labels. Full gilt spine. top edge gilt. Hand marbled end papers. Bookplate of actress Dorothy Gish, no names or marks, not signed. Gift quality. Bookplate of Dorothy Gish. Bookseller Inventory # 024870 Baldessari, John and Laurence Sterne Published by Arion Press (1988) Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Arion Press, 1988. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. John Baldessari (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition thus, 1/400 (the entire edition), signed by Baldessari as issued. Three volumes, the large text volume, a slim volume with an essay by Melwyn New, and an accordion style volume of artwork by Baldessari. A nearly fine set, some toning and spotting to spines and some rubbing to leather of the text volume. Slipcase is in very good condition, some fading, edgewear, light soiling and a small nick. Now uncommon. Signed by Author(s).

Bookseller Inventory # 001180 BALDESSARI, John and Laurence Sterne Published by San Francisco: Arion Press (1988) Used First Edition Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: San Francisco: Arion Press, 1988. First Edition. Small thick quarto, accordion foldout book, booklet, prospectus, in publisher's slipcase. The Arion Press re-imagining of Sterne's Tristram Shandy. One of 400 copies. The highlight is an accordion foldout book profusely illustrated with John Baldessari's photo-collages. Melvyn New contributes an essay in the form of a booklet. Fine in gilt-stamped full green leather (main volume), fine in accordion foldout cloth boards (Baldessari), fine in wrappers (Melvyn New's essay), prospectus also fine; publisher's gilt-stamped green slipcase appears to have two vertical pen strikes: one very short, the other about two inches. Bookseller Inventory # 21371 More Information About This Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question 44.

Bookseller Image ANTIQUARIAN BOXED SET: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. [1st edition of vols 3-9; 2nd edition of vols 1-2, with vols 5, 7 and 9 signed by author]. Sterne, Laurence Published by London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall / T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt in the Strand (1760) Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall Mall / T. Becket and P.A. DeHondt in the Strand, 1760. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Hogarth, William (illustrator). 1st Edition. Octavo; Second edition (vols 1-2, 1760), first edition (vols 3-9, 1761-1767).

Complete set of nine volumes housed in quarter leather book box with five raised spine bands, gilt tooled and with gilt lettered author and title direct to second and fourth compartments (box with slight wear to extermities). All nine volumes in full contemporary calf (lightly worn, a few hinges weak, old professional repairs to front hinges of vols 5, 7, 8 and 9, front boards to vol.6, 8 and 9 detached), four raised spine bands with gilt lettered volume numbers direct to third compartments, small early 20th century ownership labels to front pastedowns, opening and closing leaves stained by turn-ins, occasional very light spots and stains but otherwise a clean crisp and unmarked copy. With half titles to volumes 4, 5, 6 and 9 and errata to volume 7. Complete with Hogarth's frontispieces to volumes 1 and 3 (the frontispiece to volume 1 in its first state without hat or clock), the black page, blank page, an attractive rendition of the hand-produced marbled page, and Sterne's signatures to volumes 5, 7 and 9.

Despite wear to the bindings, a good complete and very early set in attractive book box. Please enquire for further details and payment options. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 000181 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: J. & R. Dodsley, London, 1760. First edition, 9 volumes, small 8vo, 1 copper engraved plate after Hogarth; 2 pages printed in black in volume 1, pp. 169-70 in volume 3 are marbled, L2r in volume 6 is blank, all as issued; volume V lacks the blank leaf A1 (as in the Rothschild copy); half-title pages in vols.

4, 5, 6, and 9, as called for by Rothschild; volume 7 is in the first state with errata on verso of the title page, with Chapter XXIII misnumbered XXIV, and the word "Gentleman" on the title page in upper and lower case; the dedication in volume 9 is in setting 'b' (as in the Rothschild copy - and apparently no priority); signed by Sterne, as usual in volumes 5 and 7 (but not 9); later full speckled calf by Bedford, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, morocco labels and lettering pieces in 2; all volumes rebacked with old spines laid down (some will loss). Leather boookplates in each volume of John Pierpont Morgan. Rothschild 1970. Bookseller Inventory # 46937 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: [York] and London: various imprints, 1760-1767, 1760. Hardcover. Book Condition: Wie neu. Ohne Schutzumschlag. 1. Auflage.

[York] and London: various imprints, 1760-1767. First Editions, First Printings. Black leaf in volume I, engraved plate and marbled leaf in volume III, half-title in volumes IV, V, VI and IX as called for, volumes V, VII and IX signed by the author as usual. Volume VII in first state, a1 volume IX in variant state (b). Occasional spotting or slight soiling, CONTEMPORARY SPECKLED CALF GILT, rebacked preserving old spines, upper joints to volumes VII and XI becoming loose, lower joint to volume XI loose, various ownership inscriptions on titles, a few volumes with the morocco book-label of Arthur Wilmer Lissauer. [Rothschild 1970], 8vo. A splendid set of the true FIRST EDITIONS OF ALL VOLUMES - volumes I and II being particularly scarce - in contemporary bindings, housed in a custom-made box. The most modern, imaginative and funny of all the early key novels and a milestone in the history of book-publishing. Please contact us at ygrbooks.ch for more information and pictures. Signatur des Verfassers.

Bookseller Inventory # 005086 The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman | Richard Blandford's Hound Blog I Ain’t Got You Babe » The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Project: Well-Read B4 Dead, in which I attempt to achieve a working knowledge of literature before my death at age ninety, continues with my reading of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , by Laurence Sterne. Although the book has the reputation of being an all-time classic, it also has the reputation for being practically unfinishable (the only attempt at anything approaching a film adaptation, A Cock And Bull Story , plays on its apparent unreadability), so naturally I made a point of reading to the very last page, because I’m hard that way.

The book, famously, is what we now know as a shaggy-dog story, with each scene interrupted by a deviation, which is itself interrupted and so on, until the book finishes with the story of Tristram’s life barely begun (whether the novel is even finished is open to debate, as it was published episodically over a period of years (1759-67), and further volumes could well have been planned). The book is indeed often difficult to read, not least because much of the deviation relates to now-obscure intellectual and scientific argument (or at least a parody of it) and without endnotes, the book wouldn’t make a great deal of (non)sense. Every so often, however, the clouds of historical distance part and some wicked humour at the expense of Tristram’s father and Uncle Toby shines through.

One of the book’s final scenes, in which the amorous Widow Wadman attempts to find out the exact location of a war wound on Uncle Toby’s groin, is an example of timeless comic writing (and if anybody ever tries to tell you that crude humour is of no cultural merit, point out to them that Tristram Shandy is absolutely full of nob gags, and then push them under a bus). Tristram Shandy has been adopted as a pre-modern-post-modern text, and seen as a deconstruction of the whole Enlightenment idea of knowledge. I think it’s something simpler than that, however. It’s inevitable, it seems, that if a medium has been in existence for a few decades, someone will have a naughty desire to pull it apart for laughs. We can see this happen in the Twentieth Century in films like Hellzapoppin’ , the cartoons of Tex Avery, Monty Python on television and the comedy jazz of Spike Jones . Also, Sterne had a model in Cervantes’ Don Quixote , which itself was a demolition of the pre-novel storytelling format of the romance.

And it is this, I feel, that makes Tristram Shandy important, and why it’s still worth bothering with today, despite the difficulties. The novel as a medium was coming into focus, with Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding smoothing the edges of the rather bumpy model established by Daniel Defoe (and yes, I know the novel has a longer, more complicated history than that, but I haven’t got all bloody day), both of them establishing something vital about what it is a novel is meant to do. In his million-word epic, Clarissa, Richardson presented the reader with interiority of character. We get to see inside these fictional people’s heads, and understand to a fine point what they are thinking, and how they are thinking, what they feel, and why. Richardson proved that the novel could create complete inner worlds in which the reader could understand what it was like to really be somebody else. Fielding, on the other hand, didn’t really do this. We never get to ‘know’ Tom Jones, for example, as well as we do Richardson’s rakish rapist Lovelace. What we do get is expert organisation of incident.

Although Tom Jones appears to be as rambling a picaresque as Don Quixote, it ultimately all ties up completely, without a loose end to be seen. Shandy blows this all apart. It’s title suggests that it’s going to present us with the ‘inner world’ of Tristram, but the constant deviation means that we barely get near it. It’s also meant to to tell us a story, but the innumerable threads mean that any sense of linear progression is lost. What Tristram Shandy shows us is that novels can only do their work through a process of omission. Only by ignoring certain probable aspects of a fictional character’s ‘character’ can we get any real sense of their being one at all. Clarissa would be a very different and peculiar novel if it included the title character’s feelings about her bowel movements. In the same vein, if different activities that Tom Jones no doubt undertook, but are not mentioned, actually were, with some that are mentioned omitted, then the sense of being told a coherent story would probably be lost. Novels tell the truth by lying. But Shandy warns us that the truth they tell is only partial and temporary. Which I suppose is quite post-modern after all.

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Photograph: Donna@mcdonaldrutter.com Monday 28 October 2013 03.30 EDT First published on Monday 28 October 2013 03.30 EDT Share on Messenger Close Tristram Shandy and its author, Laurence Sterne , are so intensely modern in mood and attitude, so profanely alert to the nuances of the human comedy, and so engaged with the narrative potentiality of the genre that it comes as something of a shock to discover that the novel was published during the seven years war. In other words, it appeared during the annus mirabilis of that prototype of international warfare that saw stunning British military victories in India, Canada and the Caribbean, and established the first British empire that would send the English language around the world. Some of the raw ebullience of the national mood is mirrored in the slightly mad pages of this uniquely entertaining novel. "Shandy" is a word of obscure origin meaning "crack-brained, half-crazy". Tristram himself says he is writing a "civil, nonsensical, good-humoured Shandean book". As such, it became a huge bestseller in the 1760s.

Sterne became a celebrity, and made a fortune, fulfilling a deep ambition. "I wrote, not to be fed but to be famous," he once said. Success had come late. Born in Ireland in 1713, Sterne spent much of his life as a country vicar near York. (In the novel, Parson Yorick is an ironical self-portrait.) His work had the difficulties often associated with original work. The first two volumes of Tristram Shandy were rejected by the London publisher, Robert Dodsley, but, when privately printed, quickly sold out. Like all subsequent bestsellers, Sterne and his book became the subject of fierce literary argument. The novel was obscene, preposterous and infuriating, the opposite of what a novel should be. The author was a "coxcomb", a vain and deplorable impostor, deficient in the good taste of a true artist. The notorious Black Page (between chapters 12 and 13 of volume I) was a silly stunt. And so on. Dr Johnson expressed the critical consensus when, in 1776, he boomed: "Nothing odd will do long.

Tristram Shandy did not last." But the good doctor was wrong. Tristram Shandy is odd; and it did last. Furthermore, it continues to exert a great influence on successive generations of writers. In the 1980s, magical realists such as Salman Rushdie rediscovered Sterne. Peter Carey, the Booker prizewinner, even acknowledged an influence in the title of his novel, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith. The secret of Sterne's hold on his readers is that Tristram Shandy is a comic tour de force whose humour, of observation and incident, explodes on to every page from the hilarious moment, in chapter 1, when Tristram Shandy is almost not conceived in a bizarre episode of coitus interruptus. An abrupt vitality is Sterne's great contribution to the art of the novel. Adopting Fielding's omniscient third-person narrative, he cheerfully set about subverting any authorial omniscience by humorously reflecting on how little he, the author, knew of his characters or their predicaments. The critic Christopher Ricks captures Sterne's playfulness when he describes Tristram Shandy as "the greatest shaggy dog story in the language".

So what is it about ? The short answer is that it is about 600 pages (in my Penguin Classics edition), and that, despite its title, it fails to give the reader much of the life or any of the opinions of its hero. Shandy himself only gets born in volume IV. Much of the narrative is taken up by Unce Toby, a veteran of the wars against Louis XIV, and his obsession with siegecraft. When, at the end, Tristram's long-suffering mother asks, "Lord! what is all this story about?" Parson Yorick replies, "A COCK and a BULL – and one of the best of its kind I ever heard." A Note on the Text: The first two volumes were published in 1759 in York by Ann Ward (at Sterne's expense) having been turned down by Robert Dodsley. When the novel became a runaway success, Dodsley rushed out a second edition, with illustrations by Hogarth in April 1760, and then published volumes III and IV. Sterne took a close interest in his publishers, and for the last volumes moved to Becket and De Hondt to get better terms.

He enjoyed publishing his work serially, small octavo volumes of fewer than 200 pages. The full-length Tristram Shandy conveys none of the delight that the 18th-century reader could expect, collecting the novel, volume by volume from year to year. Other Sterne Titles: Life Opinions Tristram Shandy Gentleman, Signed - AbeBooks Life Opinions Tristram Shandy Gentleman, Signed You Searched For: Results (1 - 30) of 35 1 Laurence Sterne ; illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright Published by Brentano's, New York, New York (1960) Used Hardcover Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Brentano's, New York, New York, 1960. Decorative Cloth. Book Condition: Good. Limited edition. Number 722 of 100 copies printed of the American edition, signed by the illustrator on the limitation page. Octavo, 9 3/4" tall, color frontispiece plus 15 color plates and 582 pages, gilt tiles, top fore-edge and decorations, brown cloth.

A good, clean, neat, sturdy hard cover edition overall with moderate shelf wear and rubbing, the fore-corner tips through to boards, back strip cloth darkened and starting to fray at top and bottomedges, and two small stains to the cover sloth, front hinge cracked but solid, and binding tight, paper lightly yellowed, without dust jacket A great reading copy of this once splindid edition. Bookseller Inventory # 33656 ISBN 10: 1906838135 ISBN 13: 9781906838133 Used Hardcover Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Self Made Hero, 2010. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. 2010. Unpaginated. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Blue pictorial boards with cloth spine and white lettering, contains pictorial plates. Authors signature to the title page. Pages remain bright with very light thumb prints included within. Binding is firm with light staining to boards and the spine. book.

Bookseller Inventory # 1474970262CLK Sterne, Laurence, Illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright Published by New York: Brentano's, New York ISBN 10: 0198185243 ISBN 13: 9780198185246 Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: New York: Brentano's, New York. Half-Leather. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Rowland Wheelwright (illustrator). Limited/Numbered. Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. Signed by Illustrator. Number 5 of 1000 of the American issue. Two inch crack from top of front cover hinge, binding rubbed along spine and cover board edges, endpapers have edge browning, interior clean and unmarked with tight binding. Signed by Illustrator(s). Bookseller Inventory # 7682 Published by George G. Harrap & Company c.1926, London (1926) Used Hardcover Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: George G.

Harrap & Company c.1926, London, 1926. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright (illustrator). Limited Edition; First Printing. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 582 pages; Very light soiling and wear to covers. Copy #994. ; Signed by Illustrator. Bookseller Inventory # 8255 Sterne, Laurence; Illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright Published by Brentano's ca 1920, New York, NY (1920) Used Hardcover Signed Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Brentano. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. Rowland Wheelwright (illustrator). 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Sterne, Laurence. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy gentleman. With illustrations by Rowland Wheelwright. Brentano's Publishers. Edition limited to one thousand copies for England and one thousand copies for the United States, of which this is No.

545 of the American issue signed by the illustrator. New York. No dated. 582 pages. Small 8vo. Hardcover little rubbed. No jacket. Some stain in his pages. Good condition. Signed by Illustrator(s). Bookseller Inventory # 001290 Published by Brentano's nd, New York Used Hardcover Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Brentano's nd, New York. Book Condition: Very Good. SIGNED Hardcover. 582 pages. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR on rear of front fly leaf. #558 of 100 American-issued copies signed. Color plate illustrations by Rowland Wheelwright. Gilt top edge. Brown cloth covers with gold lettering and decoration. Light rubbing to extremities. None. Bookseller Inventory # 508883 Published by George G. Harrap no date, London / Calcutta Used Hardcover Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: George G. Harrap no date, London / Calcutta. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. #860 of 1000. SIGNED on edition statement page by the artist.

Chip and gutter tearsto upper spine. Attractive large-paper edition, hardcover Rowland Wheelwright artwork. very good, no dj, gold-stamped brown cloth, wear to upper spine 582 pgs. Signed by Illustrator(s). Bookseller Inventory # 000424 Published by UL. Selfmadehero (2010) Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 STERNE, Laurence. WHEELWRIGHT, Rowland (illus.) Published by Brentano's, New York (1926) Used Hardcover Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Brentano's, New York, 1926. 582 pp. With illustrations in color by Rowland Wheelwright. 8vo, publisher's gilt tan cloth, t.e.g. No. 920 of 1000 copies for the United States, signed by Rowland Wheelwright. Bookplate; very minor use to cloth; tight and sound. Bookseller Inventory # 55336 Published by George G. Harrap & Co. London, 1926 Ltd. Ed.

(1926) Used Hardcover First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: George G. Harrap & Co. London, 1926 Ltd. Ed., 1926. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 9.75 X 6.75" in briown cloth with leather spine label. Deckle edges. This is an edition of 1000 copies signed by the illustrator, Rowland Wheelwright. This particular copy (also signed) is a reviewer's copy and is blind stamped as such on the title page. Scuffed, esp the spine. corners seem slightly bent in. Endpapers darkened from articles slipped in. Light foxing of title page and contents page: about VERY GOOD MINUS to VERY GOOD condition. 582pp. Signed by Illustrator(s). Bookseller Inventory # 001732 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: SELFMADEHERO, 2010. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Almost new condition 2010 edition Hardback with pictorial cover(no DJ).

Signed by author on inside title page. Publisher, cover, title and author as shown. 160 clean pages of comic art illustrations with English text, no inscriptions. Approx dims: 270mm h x 220mm w x 20mm d. Signed by Author. Bookseller Inventory # ABE-4217419744 Published by George Harrap (1926) Used Hardcover Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: George Harrap, 1926. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited Edition. Geo Harrap 1926 (Limited Edition) ; Large 8vo size, illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright, number 368 /1000 copies (England) , Signed by Wheelwright, 582 pages, gilt top edge, a few pages uncut, good to very good in decorated brown cloth. ; 582 pages.

Bookseller Inventory # 26089 Published by Limited Editions Club, New York (1935) Used Hardcover Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Limited Editions Club, New York, 1935. Hardcover. Book Condition: vg. Limited edition. Octavo. XI, 401, [18], 420-790pp. 1/4 cloth over decorative blue paper covered boards, with title-labels laid on spines. Uncut and partly unopened copies. Beautiful edition of this masterpiece of English literature, profusely illustrated with numerous in-text and full-page colored illustrations by T.M. Cleland. Limited edition of 1500 copies, this being No.1431 signed by the illustrator. Minor rubbing on corners. Slight staining on spine of second volume. Bindings in overall very good, interior in near fine to fine condition.

Bookseller Inventory # 23619 ISBN 10: 1906838135 ISBN 13: 9781906838133 Used Hardcover Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: SelfMadeHero, 2010. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. Rowson, Martin (illustrator). 2nd Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Quarto; half cloth over pictorial boards; blue spine with block lettered title in white; pages not numbered but of some 200pp in length; inscribed "Martin Rowson May '10" in black felt tip to titlepage; an attractive signed copy of this celebrated graphic novel interpretation of Sterne's Tristram Shandy. Signed by Author(s). Bookseller Inventory # 000039 Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York (1935) Used Hardcovers First Edition Signed Quantity Available: 1 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1935. Hardcovers. Book Condition: Fine.

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Slipcase. T.M. Cleland (illustrator). First LeC Edition. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST and published in a LIMITED EDITION of #1500 copies of which this is #412 in a very good, paper-covered slipcase with a clean, while but slightly toned title label and a archival glue repair to a lengthwise split at the top corner of the slipcase. Both volumes appear to be unread and are clean and unmarked. Size: Octavos. Bookseller Inventory # 1355168 Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, United Kingdom (1926) Used Hardcover Signed Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, London, United Kingdom, 1926. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wheelwright, Rowland (illustrator). Limited Edition. British edition. Limited edition of 1000 copies for England and 1000 copies for the United States, of which this is number 333 of the English issue. Signed by the illustrator in ink. No jacket as issued.

Illustrated by Rowland Wheelwright. Brown boards are very good with a few marks, little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, a little patchy fading, the odd small bump to edges and a few minor scratches. The binding is tight and pages are generally clean. Rough cut page edges and bottoms. Top of pages gilt. End-papers tanned. Odd mark to a few pages. Occasional spot of foxing. Occasional small crease to a few pages. No other faults. All illustrations present and in good order. Non UK shipping will be higher than that quoted due to weight of book. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted. Signed by Illustrator(s). Bookseller Inventory # 002433 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: (Printed A. Colish for) The Limited Editions Club, New York: 1935., 1935. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Two Volumes. Illustrated with line drawings washed in yellow by T. M. Cleland; set in monotype Caslon on Worthy special laid paper. 8vo. 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches.

Volumes bound by George McKibbin & Son in half blue linen, sides and insert page of marbled paper made by Mr. Cleland. Original paper spine labels, slightly foxed and soiled. Original slip case house both volumes. Inked ownership of Jefford F. Oller, the original subscriber, on front fly leaves. Includes a Xerox copy of the Monthly Letter. Number 420 of an edition limited to only 1500 copies, signed by the artist and designer, T.M. Cleland. Fine copy. The books published by the Limited Editions Club are justly treasured for the quality of the texts, the beauty and artistry of the illustrations, the creativity of design, and the overall excellence of the paper, presswork, and binding. Each book would make a wonderful gift for any occasion. W35. Signed by Illustrator(s). Bookseller Inventory # 070LEC4 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Limited Editions Club, New York, 1935. hardcover. Book Condition: About Fine in a Fine slipcase. T. M. Cleland (illustrator).

Two octavo (5-3/4" x 8-1/4") volumes bound in half blue linen and blue marbled paper sides. Introduction by Christopher Morley. Illustrated with line drawings by T. M. Cleland who also designed the book. Of a total of 1500 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, this copy is not numbered (in place of the number is written in ink "Office Copy") and bears the Club's blindstamp stating it is one of 15 presentation copies. The slipcase was specially made for the publisher and is very similar to the original but slightly larger and without the printed label on the spine. Bookseller Inventory # 016799 Destination, Rates & Speeds Item Description: Arion Press, San Francisco, 1988. Full Leather in Slipcase. Book Condition: Very Good. First Edition 1/400. Stout 8vo. 624 + 46 + np, profusely illustrated in color and b&w.

This twenty-sixth publication of Andrew Hoyem's esteemed Arion Press is a beautifully constructed and executed hand-letterpress reprinting of Lawrence Sterne's classic of English literature, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" that has been newly-illustrated by the noted Conceptual artist John Baldessari. Remaining faithful to the delightful typographic eccentricities and variant spellings of Sterne's own self-published editions from the 1760s, the main text of the novel has been set in Caslon Old Style - the typeface utilized by Sterne for the original printings - and bound in a single, substantial three-quarter green goatskin over lovely hand-marbled boards volume. This is accompanied by literary scholar Melvyn New's informative forty-six page essay "Lawrence Sterne and Tristram Shandy" separately bound in boards. The crowning achievement of this ambitious undertaking however is the third volume which contains John Baldessari's wry visual commentary of photo-collaged and altered found photographs and film stills in the form of a lengthy accordion-fold leporello that is anchored between green gilt-stamped boards.

The three volumes are housed in a gilt-stamped green paper over board slipcase along with the additional Arion Press pre-publication prospectus laid in. A handsome example of the standard edition of this exquisite, uncommon item (entry number three in Elizabeth Phillips and Tony Zwicker's 1993 "The American Livre de Peintre" exhibition and catalogue from The Grolier Club) limited to four hundred unnumbered copies BOLDLY SIGNED "John Baldessari" in pencil on the colophon of illustrated volume, as issued, showing some typical mild age-toning of the spines along with mild surface abrasions as well as tiny dings to the upper foredge tips of the primary text volume. The slipcase is a bit worn and handled with some insect damage - primarily to the rear panel - that does not affect the gilt lettering. It has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase. Signed by the Artist. Livre D'Artiste. Bookseller Inventory # 025034

Question: Which word completes the full title of the book, 'The Life And Opinions Of Tristram Shandy ....... '?
Answer: 'GENTLEMAN'